Jungle Food

[Idaho Jarhead]

This is kind of off topic, but since ESEE runs jungle survival training I was hoping I might find an answer here.

My buddy and I were watching Book of Eli the other night and talking about the cannibal shakes. Then the question came up if a person might not have the same thing happen to them from eating monkey. I tried googling that question but didn't find anything more than people talking about monkey brains and stupid stuff.

So my question is, can a person sustain on eating monkey? And are there any side affects to eating monkey, such as the cannibal shakes?

 

[Don Rearic]

I dunno, but do cannibals really get tremors in their hands anyway?

 

[MarineAir]

I think that was more made up for the movie... Eat all the monkeys you'd like, pretty sure you'll be shake free.

 

[R.A.T.]

Monkey is like any other mammal meat. Just cook it well done and you are good to go.

 

[seniormcblade]

i can chuck a rock and hit the jungle. coconuts. fish and a weasel.no monkeys here.

 

[Carolina River Rat]

Monkey is like any other mammal meat. Just cook it well done and you are good to go.

Does it taste good?

 

[Don Rearic]

My Brother ate one in Honduras when he was down there and he said it was salty enough to require beer.

 

[Idaho Jarhead]

I dunno, but do cannibals really get tremors in their hands anyway?

My understanding is the shakes come from your body trying to break down the same amino acids it is made out of. That's what I was told anyway.


Good to know monkeys are safe. Although there aren't many up here in Alaska.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

Eating monkey is not cannibalism unless you are a monkey.

Cannibalism spreads prion diseases.

 

[R.A.T.]

Anything tastes good with Tabasco

 

[Idaho Jarhead]

I was thinking horseradish sauce and beer.

 

[StoneColdChuckTX]

It's just hollyweird hoo-ha, you wouldn't get the shakes.

Case in point, Dahmer ate nothing but people meat from his victims for a good while before he was finally caught and didn't have the shakes. Nor did that Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes and had to resort to eating folks.

 

[rodloos]

Does it taste good?

I've eaten monkey meat, it was pretty tough. Had to boil it awhile to tenderize it. Then my older brother pulled out a tendon and told my sisters it was a worm, killed their appetites . I don't care for it the way the Indians prepared it - instead of skinning it, they singed the hair off over the fire, and I don't think you can *ever* get rid of that burnt hair smell. There are lots of better-tasting critters in the jungle .

 

[resinguy]

Cannibalism spreads prion diseases.

IIRC, the prion risk comes from eating human brain, not the rest of the meat.

 

[wolffbite]

IIRC, the prion risk comes from eating human brain, not the rest of the meat.

That and the spinal cord.

Human version of mad-cow known as CJD